Incest
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Incest is a sexual activity involving close family members that are usually forbidden either socially or legally, to marry. Incest is forbidden even in societies in the past and it continues to be a taboo all over the world. In some places, incest is also against the law.
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[edit] Forms of incest
Parental incest
This is considered as child abuse. Parental incest happens when a father or mother engages in a sexual activity with a son or daughter.
Sibling incest
Sibling incest is common between similar aged brothers and sisters. But sometimes, an older sibling takes advantage of a younger sibling and forces him/her to have sexual intercourse. This can cause serious psychological trauma to the younger sibling.
Adult incest
Adult siblings sometimes engage in incestuous relationships and this is usually against the law in most countries. Some people are pushing for the reconsideration and abolishment of these laws. Some people believe that consensual incestuous relationships between adult brothers and sisters do not harm other people and therefore should be criminally penalized.
In France, incest between a parent and a minor child is punishable by the law, but incest between adult brothers and sisters is legal.
[edit] Incest in pop culture
In literature
- In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Claudius, King of Denmark married his brother's widow Gertrude.
- In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin, the characters Turin and Nienor who are sibling got married to each other when they met for the first time. Nienor was suffering from amnesia that time.
- In the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles, the main character, Oedipus, unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother.
- In Stephen King's Gerald's Game, the main character Jessie was sexually abused by his father at the age of ten.
- The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things written by JT LeRoy features a 5 year old boy named Jeremiah sexually abused by his prostitute mother.
In film
- The American horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre features a villain as a product of inbreeding.
- In the 1979 film Caligula, incest was a major element in the plot.
- The Australian film Bad Bubbly Boy features an incestuous relationship between a mother and her adult son.
In television
- In the American TV series Prison Break, a character name Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell is depicted as a
product of incestuous relationship between his father and Down syndrome afflicted aunt.
- In the American TV series Lost, showed an incestuous scene where step-siblings Boone and Shannon slept together.
- In the American cartoon series The Simpsons, Springfield's rival town Shelbyville allows men to marry their cousins.
In music
- The song Family Tree by metal band Megadeth is about incest between a father and daughter.
- The song Alive by Seattle rock band Pearl Jam tells about a young teenage boy molested by his mother.
- American metal band Eyehategod wrote a song called Sister Fucker.
[edit] Incest in pornography
Incest is a popular niche in pornography and this is illegal in many countries. Incest pornography may be produced by actual relatives, but usually incest pornography features actors that just pretend to be family members. Producers usually get actors who look alike to suggest family relationship. Incest pornography sometimes feature real-life identical twins doing sexual activities, although this is usually regarded as mainstream.
Incest pornography is usually divided into categories, the parent-child pair, brother-sister pair or the identical twins of either sex. Although incest pornography is usually staged and produced for “fantasy” purposes, there are some popular incest pornographic films that feature real life family members. One example is Double Czech, it starred real-life twin brothers performing sexual activities that includes oral sex and anal sex.
